Question

Describe the struggle of the Sikhs to form an
independent Sikh state.​

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

The Khalistan movement is a Sikh separatist movement seeking to create a separate country called Khalistān ("The Land of the Khalsa") in the Punjab region as a homeland for Sikhs. The proposed country would consist of both the Punjab, India along with Punjab, Pakistan and include parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh in Pakistan; as well as Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and parts of Jammu and Kashmir, and Rajasthan in India. According to Jagjit Singh Chohan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto the Prime Minister of Pakistan had proposed to make Nankana Sahib (currently in Pakistan), as the capital of Khalistan during his talks with Chohan after the conclusion of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

The Khalistan movement was established by expatriates. In 1971, the first explicit call for Khalistan was made in an advertisement published in The New York Times by expat Jagjit Singh Chohan. With financial and political support of the Sikh diaspora, the movement flourished in the Indian state of Punjab, which has a Sikh-majority population and reached its zenith in the late 1970s and 1980s, when the secessionist movement caused large-scale violence among the local population including assassination of PM Indira Gandhi and the bombing of Air India Flight 182 killing 328 passengers. Various pro-Khalistan outfits have been involved in a separatist movement against the Government of India ever since. In the 1990s the insurgency petered out, and the movement failed to reach its objective due to multiple reasons including a heavy police crackdown on separatists, divisions among the Sikhs and loss of support from the Sikh population.

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